Burial Register abbreviations

[nanny jan]

Thanks folks that's cleared up 2; just got to crack S.P. now!

Nanny Jan

[stanmapstone]

Burial in woollen and the tax on baptisms, marriages and burials are from different periods and don't overlap. 

However poor you were, you had to be buried in a woollen shroud (to support the ailing wool trade) whilst that law was enforced.  You will find some richer members of the community whose burials are annotated with 'buried in linen' for example.  Their families were prosperous enough to afford the fine.

The 1678 Act stated that'.....no corpse of any person (except those who shall die of the plague), shall be buried in any shirt, shift, sheet or shroud or anything whatsoever, made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold or silver, or in any stuff or thing other than what is made from sheep's wool only....'
If someone was buried in linen an informer was entitled to half the fine. In consequence of half the fine going to the informant, the relatives of the deceased usually arranged that a relation or dependent should "inform" and thus secure the reward for the family.
Stan

[LeedsHipPriest69]

Really struggling with reading and understanding registers

I'm currently looking for the burial of Joanna Meire, I have two possibles bur St Peter Ad Vincula Stoke on Trent May 1715 which includes what looks like the words "vidua of paup" which I think simply means widow of pauper, or bur St Peter Ad Vincula Mar 1717 which includes either "UP" or "UX"

Any latin buffs ? The UP/UX are my sticking point, otherwise I'm thinking my Joanna is 1715

[mckha489]

Really struggling with reading and understanding registers

I'm currently looking for the burial of Joanna Meire, I have two possibles bur St Peter Ad Vincula Stoke on Trent May 1715 which includes what looks like the words "vidua of paup" which I think simply means widow of pauper, or bur St Peter Ad Vincula Mar 1717 which includes either "UP" or "UX"

Any latin buffs ? The UP/UX are my sticking point, otherwise I'm thinking my Joanna is 1715

It’s Ux.  Abbreviation of Uxor = wife.  Frustrating for you that it does not say of whom she was the wife!

Added. The 1715 burial says vidua et paup. (Not of) so widow & paup(er)

[Helen Bedford]

Hi
Can anyone help with an abbreviation found in 1748 burials in Edmonton registers please?
It looks like "Ed.Regr". I presume the second word is regular but what does the term mean?
It only occurs on two men and one woman on a whole page of burials.
Thanks
Helen

[Bookbox]

I think the page you’re looking at is from the Weld Chapel in Southgate, not Edmonton itself. The Weld Chapel was a chapel-of-ease for All Saints, Edmonton. I would suggest that Ed. Regr. stands for ‘Edmonton Register’. Maybe the burial was recorded in that register too?

[Helen Bedford]

It is the Weld Chapel register and I think you're right about the abbreviation as I looked closer at the page and found the first one was a bit fuller "Edm.Regr". But what the significance of the note is, I'm not sure as the entries concerned do not appear in the main body of Edmonton entries. Rather the whole set of the chapel register appears to be reproduced in the Edmonton register as a side column.
But thanks anyway
Helen